NCIS: Sydney 2
Channel: Universal TV (DStv 117)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Police Procedural, Drama, Action
NCIS: Sydney is the fifth series to come out of the global NCIS franchise and the first-ever international edition.
With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of US NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
Led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim "JD" Dempsey (Todd Lasance), the team of Americans and Aussies must quickly learn to trust each other, overcoming and harnessing their differences to solve each case.
Though jurisdictional tussles and culture clashes make for a rocky start, Mackey will eventually come to respect JD's nose for the truth, as he does her maverick style.
Meanwhile, sassy AFP Constable Evie Cooper and endlessly curious Special Agent DeShawn Jackson form a fast friendship.
And curmudgeonly forensic pathologist Doctor Roy Penrose meets his match in the brilliant young forensic scientist Bluebird "Blue" Gleeson.
Together, our team becomes NCIS' first-ever internationally blended family.
In the Season 2 premiere, "Heart Starter": NCIS: Sydney will do whatever it takes to crack the case of a rogue assassin on the run during NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson's chaotic first day as boss.
Justice on Trial
Channel: Prime Video
TX Time: 10h00
Genre: True Crime, Docu-Drama
Justice on Trial is created by and features Judge Judy Sheindlin in a never-before-seen courtroom docu-drama.
A new exploration of the American justice system through the vehicle of a docu-drama, featuring testimony and reenactments based on actual court transcripts.
The series explores the footings of American jurisprudence - including what children are taught in school, police diligence as opposed to overreach, and individual rights versus the greater good.
Some of these thought-provoking and controversial topics have been the subject of Supreme Court rulings.
Justice on Trial will examine these seminal rulings through a combination of sometimes-heated courtroom debate, lively civil discourse, and common-sense legal analysis.
Discovered by Disaster
Channel: HISTORY (DStv 186)
TX Time: 20h15
Genre: Documentary Series, Nature
Throughout history, extreme weather events and catastrophic disasters – both natural and man-made – have reshaped the Earth's surface.
These events can wreak terrible destruction. But they can also uncover incredible things.
From hurricanes revealing medieval skeletons, Mayan hieroglyphics and shipwrecks to droughts uncovering ancient lost cities, cryptic stone monuments and human remains, Discovered by Disaster examines mysterious curiosities that were once hidden, only to be exposed by a calamitous incident.
Using cutting-edge CGI, archival and stock footage, and expert interviews, the series delves deep into these discoveries.
In the series premiere, "Wrecks, Ruins and Relics": Inspect the wreck of the Mary Celestia, a Civil War ship raised by a hurricane.
Encounter imperial relics exposed by a drought in Iraq, the storm-tossed remains of a medieval man, and long-lost wooden artifacts that reshape Native American history.
Design For You 10
Channel: The Home Channel (DStv 176)
TX Time: 16h00
Genre: Home Improvement, DIY
Whether we live in a mansion or a bachelor pad, we all plan and decorate the interior of our homes the way we know best, but we could always do with a bit of help from the experts.
Design for You is a show where you can draw home decor and design inspiration.
Join host Pilani Bubu as she chats to some of South Africa's top interior design experts about everything from space, colour and texture to fabrics, furniture and even lighting.
Along the way she'll be showcasing an array of beautiful home interiors and getting some expert advice on common design dilemmas found in our homes.
So if you need assistance with figuring out the best place to put your couch, or guidance in creating design features in your home that best suit your space, you might just find the perfect Design for You.
Inside the Factory 6
Channel: BBC UKTV (DStv 134)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Technology, Science, Food
With exclusive access to some of the world's biggest and busiest factories – some opening their doors to TV cameras for the very first time – this behind-the-scenes documentary series reveals the secrets of consumer goods.
MasterChef's Gregg Wallace discovers the astonishing machinery and processes that allow these supersized factories to produce the food and goods we buy.
Gregg is back with co-host Cherry Healy to take his love of food back to the source – the factories that feed us – to find out how some of our favourite foods get made in.
In each episode, Gregg goes behind-the-scenes at some of the largest factories in Europe, while Cherry investigates the science and innovation behind each product.
Also, historian Ruth Goodman reveals how it was invented and popularised.
In the Season 6 premiere, "Cider": Gregg visits the biggest cider factory in the world, which produces more than 350-million litres each year.
The scale of production blows his mind as at each turn he's confronted with huge machinery and incredible processes.
He visits Birchley Farm in Herefordshire, at the heart of cider country, before heading to the mill at Ledbury to help sort the apples.
At the factory itself, he learns about the fermentation process and the critical role of yeast, before being shown the vast scale of the bottling process, which sees 833 bottles cleaned and filled every minute.
Meanwhile, Cherry explores how the factory is creating new orchards of a sweet apple variety called Scrumptious through the ancient technique of grafting, as well as revealing how a by-product from the brewing industry, CO2, is vital in the manufacture of fire extinguishers.
Ruth traces a Victorian apple-breeding boom with Dr Annie Gray, recreating one of Queen Victoria's favourite baked apple desserts.
And she learns how it was British scientists and cider makers - not French champagne makers - who were the first to put fizz in a bottle.